Category Archives: Optimized Infrastructure

A flexible and affordable business continuity plan, particularly one that addresses system redundancy and accessibility, while ensuring that the worst case scenario is looked after… is a an investment that a business takes to ensure a peace of mind and credibility. Beyond being looked at as worst-case scenario plan, or “the likelihood of this happening…

By Todd Cox, Chief Technology Officer Recently, there has been a lot of buzz around the term “software-defined,” especially software-defined storage (“SDS”). At Able-One Systems, we’ve partnered with Atlantis Computing to deliver SDS solutions for our customers. The obvious difference is that a true software-defined solution is just that; software only. The solution does not force you to…

By Grant Sojnocki, President, Able-One Systems In recent years “going green” and “green business” have been commonly heard buzz words. At Able-One Systems we made it such a priority that one of our six solution areas is termed “Green Data Centre”. Although it is something that most people realize the importance of, many of our clients…

By Eden Watt, Vice President, Application Innovation, Able-One Systems If there’s one common challenge that I hear repeatedly from IT leaders that I meet, it’s how to integrate and merge disparate applications, especially after acquisitions or line of business changes. The complexity of systems managed by many organizations today can be mind boggling. This…

By Jordan Sojnocki, Marketing Manager Lately there has been a lot of media attention around the changing landscape of the work environment. There seems to be an undertone of concern about machinery, computers and automation replacing jobs, and that we have to be connected 24/7. How will people adapt? This story is not new;…

by Gabor Vajay, Sr. Solution Architect, Able-One Systems, Inc CPS Energy in San Antonio, Texas went through a rigorous process when designing their datacenter: they did over a year and a half of research, and toured dozens of datacenters to learn best practices. After all this research and ground work, they selected OptiCool for cooling…

by Todd Cox, Chief Technology Officer and Lead IT Architect Recently, I’ve been getting a lot of questions on IBM’s new announcement regarding the Storwize V3700… essentially the little brother to the Storwize V7000. While at first glance, the products seem very similar in terms of functionality, there are several important issues to consider when…

by Todd Cox, Chief Technology Officer and Lead IT Architect When I ask Chief Information Officers what their biggest source of frustration is around storage and storage management, clearly it involves managing the growth of storage and really getting to the “true” price per terabyte on the floor. The true cost of enterprise disk has…

By Grant Sojnocki President, Able-One Systems In our first blog post we talked about the growing problem of heat management in the data center, and discussed why traditional methods for cooling are no longer economic or environmentally friendly options. Carrying on with this topic, in this post, we’re going to focus on a disruptive, new…